What I have in mind is to add a function to include all the dependencies that a process has (objects, credentials, env. variables, etc...) without having to drag every single one to the release window manually.
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Hi team, it’s possible at the moment to convert passwords to Text data item. It would be good to block it so passwords are not fetched. Michał
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Raising this enhancement to get option to export Decipher Audit Logs into any file format. from Web Portal
We are using Decipher v2.3 for BP 7.1.1 Environment.
We require to save the Audit logs into our security system for auditing purpose. Decipher v2.3 does not have option to export the logs and we are only able to view the logs on the Decipher Web Portal.
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Status:
Under Consideration
Submitted on
27-07-23
05:09 PM
Submitted by
Manoj_RPA
on
27-07-23
05:09 PM
Ideas/Suggestions:
1. Capture - MS Teams Integrations: It would be a great option if capture integrates with major communication tools to write down the transcription in PDD, it will be helpful for people who doesn't have necessity to produce code with Capture. (Reference: otter.ai)
2. Capture Hearing: While customer using capture and speaks about process and logics capture should listen and should write them down in PDD.
3. Capture Upload: Capture creates document once we upload the recording into it. Again it will be a good idea for who only want PDD without doing updating settings every time.
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Enhancement request to have the ability for the system to tell you if the user being disabled is an owner of a case like it does with work in the worklist. Product Management provided the following feedback as to enhancements in the works:
We have User Admin requirements in play right now and this use case has not been addressed yet.
User Admin is undergoing enhancements to support the ability to DEACTIVATE a user ... which is different than just disabling their status.
Today, disabled is both a temporary and a permanent availability status.
When you intentionally disable somebody ... it is because you want to take away permissions (security, privileges, configurations for various teams - like a case team). We check today to handle assigned work. We don't check on any memberships anywhere else. This is a good use case.
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It seems machines (runtime resources & workplaces) are always identified by their host names, regardless of system settings. In our case our settings were: register using short names, communicate using FQDN However, the registration considered short names and FQDN and caused issues after DNS name change that made manual DB updates necessary. The machines were verified based on their short names in BPAResource and Blue Prism crashed because of FQDN mismatch. The only reason to chose 'register using short names' is to avoid long FQDN names in Control. Therefore: 1. add settings for short/FQDN in Control that is independent on communication and registration 2. always register and evaluate FQDN and never short names only
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No automation is complete without Mobile Device Automation. Mobile Devices already make up more then 50% of the market share, compared to desktop computers, and are part of our daily life.
Can we also introduce Mobile Device Automation as part of the platform, supporting Smartphones or Smart-Devices currently on the market. And it should not matter if they are emulators, real devices, or if they are in your local network, connected via USB or in the Cloud - as we leverage appium.io . Something which we can directly interact with trough some VBO or modeller and we can create Workflows the same way we do it for desktop automation, without the need to learn something new.
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If we would like to monitor processes on weekends, process which are time sensitive and if laptop is not accessible, monitoring process in control room via mobile device would be really helpful.
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Scenario:
BP is installed on 2 Virtual Machines. 1 is Application Server (AS) and the other is Runtime Resource (RR).
Runtime Resource is not logged into but has a windows task scheduler that runs on Virtual Machine START UP.
The task scheduler executes script below and brings up BP:
[Blue Prism Install Location]\automate.exe /resourcepc /public
Login Agent is used to login to the RR to execute a process.
This ONLY works when the process being executed is ran in the background and fails when the process has to run in the foreground.
Issue:
The script executed by the task scheduler launches BP in the background using specified credentials (if provided).
On login via the Login Agent, it does not own the foreground process (because the task scheduler script owns it)
Implications:
You cannot run processes in the foreground i.e launching Internet Explorer and capturing details or Notepad.
Work around / Solution:
Run the task scheduler on Virtual Machine startup as per usual.
Run the same script on user login (login via login agent) as a startup task/program in the startup folder. However, you will have to kill the previous process launched by the task scheduler.
Script will live here and will be executed on login:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp
Example commands for the script with 2 steps (variations also available in Power Shell):
taskkill /IM “Automate.exe” /F
[Blue Prism Install Location]\automate.exe /resourcepc /public
This will allow the user logged in via the login agent to own all the processes in the background and foreground.
Things to consider:
Task scheduler script is required to run on RR boot because it launches BP and makes the resource available to the AS and IC (interactive client) for the login agent to login
Why is this not a common issue? Because most Virtual Machines don’t shut down. If they do, someone physically logs in and manually launches BP (thereby launching it in the foreground)
Why did it happen to us? We’re running in a cloud environment and in order to optimize costs, Virtual Machines are turned on & off on a schedule so they don’t run 24 hours with no workloads
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I would like to be able to extract information from a process that would tell the build of that process. Steps, pages and the Objects used.
See question here:
Simplifying doucmentation of processes | Blue Prism Product
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Many organizations have their own PDD templates (logo changes, introductory text, font...). To increase the value of BP Capture, it would be useful to have the option to modify the template, so that the output could be used as-is (or require less updating). With the current situation, Capture is limited to providing screenshots, which the analyst then copies to their PDD template.
As an interim measure, it would be useful to have a technical specification of the used styles, since the style documents are available and could be modified manually.
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Code Stages currently only support older language levels of .NET languages. Especially C# is currently only supported in v. 5.0, which was released in 2012. Modern constructs like initializing auto-implemented Properties were introduced in later versions but are features expected by programmers to be available per default. As BP is using the native .NET framework to compile Code Stages on runtime into dynamic assemblies, the latest version supported is C# v. 5.0. More recent versions can easily be supported by using Microsoft's Roslyn compiler platform, which is provided as a NuGet package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform/ It should even be possible to configure the language level dynamically so old code can be compiled in the same way as it currently is.
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Status:
Needs More Info
Submitted on
02-12-19
07:12 PM
Submitted by
TylerGlenn
on
02-12-19
07:12 PM
The BP API dialog box builds html pages for each object selected from the dropdown. This is based on object contents. I suggest BP builds an API website (perhaps hosted on the local server) with foldering to match the Object studio folder structure, and have it automatically update documentation upon save/import of objects. Including referenced components in API (or allowing further customization) would be a plus, but a self-updating API website would be very useful especially for larger/federated teams.
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When only changing a description and there is no need to update any other credential settings for a credential in Blue Prism v6.8.0, after selecting OK to save and close the credential, nothing is actually saved to the credential. Upon opening it up again, the description has reverted to what it was before making the update. In our set up, we use the description field to record notes. Currently we have to change another detail, e.g. shifting the expiry date by one day, for the description update to be saved and viewable. Having a field that reverts to previous version despite being updated, plants the seed of doubt in the mind of the user: is Blue Prism robust enough? what else is not being updated? Presuming this is a bugfix, we're looking forward to the release that resolves this issue.
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When I check for changes to a process or object, I want a visual way to understand it, such as "Compare", and a way to understand it by writing like a list. (Example of the list: Input BB of XXX page AAA action has been changed to CC) ) ===== ご担当者様 作成したプロセスやオブジェクトの変更箇所を確認する際、Compareのように視覚的にわかる方法と、文字でわかる方法が欲しいです。(〇〇ページ◆◆アクションのInput△△が▼▼に変更されました など一覧で) よろしくお願いいたします。
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We need an auto size and auto layout functionalities which formats the entire BluePrism page similar to what is available in Visual Studio for SSIS job. Perhaps with a notification that reverify any recovery blocks in the page. Surely, I am not the only one who get annoyed by new developers arranging the flow of the process in a convoluted manner.
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Hi, it would be great to have more flexible GUI, examples includes: Work queue list always collapsed (on/off) Process list always collapsed (on/off) Schedule list always collapsed (on/off) Debug speed (slow/medium/max) etc... This could be even some hidden settings /advanced settings (or even some kind of config file would work). One of examples what benefit it brings - see attachment. Plain scheduler management would be a lot more convenient. Same goes for Release management.
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We should have row numbers labeled in the first column of collection for ease of identification of row by number. Similar to MS Excel.
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Sorry in advance folks, this is gonna be a long one... When starting the compare panel by pressing the 'Compare' choice:
...a compare window pops up. It shows the older version on the left and the newer on the right. In the first few seconds after opening this window, the number of changes is shown: 'xxx difference(s) found'. After a second or two this text disappears. When you press the RightArrow button marked 'Show next difference' the focus shifts to the next change, Equally so, the LeftArrow button shifts focus to the previous difference while the double arrows jump to the first or the last difference.
The definition of 'next' seems to be chronological rather than the 'next change on this page' which is quite confusing and not very handy when doing a 4i audit. A process I was changing today logged no less than 522 differences when i was done with it. This'll be a tough one to handle in our 4i audit later this week! However, at least 400 of these changes are related to house-keeping - removing unreferenced data items, no longer used pages, parameters and actions etc. These house-keeping differences are not as relevant as 'real' changes such as changes in the flow, new/changed actions, new/changed parameters etc., at least not on an audit. So it would be nice if they could be omitted by choice... Summarizing the above, I only have three requests to improve this compare window: 1. Can the status text with the number of differences found stay where it is and not disappear? 2. Can the definition of 'next difference' be modified so BP focusses on all changes on the current page and after that hop to the next page to show all changes there? 3. Would it be possible to identify house-keeping differences and have the choice to omit them from the Compare window?
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Status:
Needs More Info
Submitted on
19-11-19
08:14 AM
Submitted by
MarleenHordijk
on
19-11-19
08:14 AM
Our schedulers are starting at 05:30 AM every day. We come in the office at 08:30 AM. Sometimes a resource was not available at 05:30 for several reasons and the scheduler has not started. Becasuse we are living in the time of knowing everything at the time of when it happens via push messages on our phone, we would like to have this option also for the control room and the resources. If there can be an app via your smartphone (or another solution) that sends you a push messages when a resource is down for longer than an amount of time or for no reason, that would be helpful. Maybe this could be done for the proces status also? When one is in status of warning or teminated.
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